Acting Is Very Immediate.

If You Play Mark Twain And He's Not Funny, You Are Definitely Not Playing Mark Twain. That Was The Biggest Challenge, In Some Ways. Writing And Performing Jokes That Can Come Out Of That Brilliant Delivery System He Constructed: The Friendly, Avuncular Truth-teller.

I Respect People Who Can Do Both Careers, Like Will Smith And A Couple Of Other People Who Have Done It, But I Just Don't Know When They Sleep.

Mark Twain Is As Big As America. He Really Is.

Doing My First Movie, I Realized I Could Get Into Real Bad Habits. If You're The Star, All You Have To Do Is Show Up, And 20 People Say, 'do You Want Anything? What Is It? Let Me Get It For You.' Believe Me, You Get Spoiled Very Quickly. I Saw Some Of My Contemporaries Allow Themselves To Have That Fame, Thinking They Could Handle It. It Messed Them Up.

I'm A Character Actor, But I Look Like A Leading Man.